Why is uploaded file renamed when saved on server

[steinm]

If a file invoice.pdf was saved under the same name, how would you call a new version of that file with the same name?

But then you still have to fiddle with all the special chars users may use
for their filenames.

Maybe:

invoice.1.pdf
invoice.2.pdf
invoice.3.pdf and so on. Hadn't thought the problem thru, but it does make me wonder how SVN performs this task.

svn has a similar approach like letodms.

I just discovered the Archive creation tool. This is very handy. Thanks!

My main concern is forward looking. Should letoDMS stop development (lets hope it never does!) then I would be forced to abandon it as a tool and would need to be able to get those files in their original formatted names. The Archive creation tool alleviates a lot of this fear.

For a php programmer it shouldn't be a problem to read the database and extract the files. The schema is actually quite simple.

Uwe